Civic Activism as a Novel Component of Armenian Civil Society

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9.5. Relatives and Friends’ Perceptions of Activists .................................................................. 80 9.6. Public Perceptions of NGOs .............................................................................................. 82 9.7. Activists’ Perception of NGOs (NGOs’ Responses) ......................................................... 83 9.8. Perceptions of Relationship ................................................................................................ 84 X. Other Issues ............................................................................................................................. 86 10.1. Politics, Political Parties and Activism .............................................................................. 86 10.2 Armenia’s top problems and ways to improve ................................................................. 87 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 90 References ..................................................................................................................................... 94 Appendix 1 Focus Group Guide for Civic Activists ................................................................... 101 Appendix 2 Focus Group Guide for NGO Leaders .................................................................. 102 Appendix 3 Focus Group Guide for Non-Activists ................................................................... 103 Appendix 4 Interview Guide for Civic Activists ......................................................................... 104 Appendix 5 Interview Guide for NGO Leaders ........................................................................ 105 Appendix 6 Qualitative Data Indexing Scheme .......................................................................... 106 5
List of Abbreviations ARMedia CB CSI CRRC NGO RA TIAC TCPA WVS Alternative Resources in Media (survey) Caucasus Barometer (survey) Civil Society Index Caucasus Research Resource Centers Non-Governmental Organisation Republic of Armenia Transparency International Anticorruption Center Turpanjian Center for Policy Analysis World Values Survey List of Tables Table 1. Structure of Focus Group Discussions ..................................................................................... 21 Table 2: Non-conventional political participation by socio-demographic variables, WVS ............ 31 Table 3. NGO involvement in civic activism ........................................................................................... 56 Table 4 Civic activism typologies ............................................................................................................... 65 List of Figures Figure 1: Confidence in social movements (WVS, %) ........................................................................... 25 Figure 2: Political activism in Armenia (WVS, %) ................................................................................... 26 Figure 3: Increased importance of the Internet as an information source (ARMedia, %) ............. 27 Figure 4: Average trust towards online information sources by age cohorts (ARMedia, mean on the scale from 1 “don’t trust at all” to 4 “trust very much”) .............................................................. 29 Figure 5 Partial overlap between internet users and activists ............................................................. 32 6
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Table 3. NGO involvement in civic a
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to seek out those organisations tha
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increase of feeling of loneliness.
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people, change their thinking, risk
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street, activism can take different
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public activism (because, in a true
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lack of political will on the part
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“As a non-participant to any prot
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8.2. Civic Initiatives in Armenia T
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8.2.2. Why Do Civic Initiatives Fai
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IX. Perceptions 9.1. Activist Perce
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At times, the public regards activi
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and not just the public at large, h
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The mother of another activist orig
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easons. There are some groups of pe
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X. Other Issues -- In Armenia, acti
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the society to become an equal part
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Conclusion For the past two decades
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is not the point we are attempting
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References Aarhus Convention Compli
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Flanagan, Constance A. 2004. “Vol
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McAdam, Doug, John D. McCarthy, and
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Tilly, Charles, and Sidney Tarrow.
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Appendix 2 Focus Group Guide for NG
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Appendix 4 Interview Guide for Civi
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Appendix 6 Qualitative Data Indexin
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